Mobile Phone Insurance News

Vodafone has announced that they will be able to offer their customers the iPhone early in 2010. They hope the move to announce this development now will limit the number of customers who are tempted to switch to either O2 or Orange just ot get hold of an iPhone.

The development would leave 3 as the only network not able to offer the iPhone (assuming the T-Mobile and Orange merger goes ahead).

Whichever network your handset is connected to you’ll be able to insure yours with insurance2go.

The O2 arena has reported a profit in its first full year of trading. The arena made a pre-tax profit of £15.6 million n 2008, this is a massive imporvement on the 2007 position when it reported a loss of £9.7 million.

O2 have invested in supporting live music up and down the country by sponsoring a number of well known venues including the Brixton Academy and the Shepherds Bush Empire.

Orange are hopeful that they will soon be able to offer the iPhone in their stores to connect to their network.

It is thought that the planned merger with T-Mobile has strengthened their position as Apple are keen to increase sales.

Were this to happen it would leave just Vodafone and 3 as the only operators unable to offer the iPhone.

Wathc this space - of course insurance2go will offer insurance on any iPhone connected to any network.

Vodafone will launch their new 360 service in time for Christmas. The service, which is be launched initially on 2 Samsung and 4 Nokia handsets is an attempt to cash in on the massive growth in use of networking sites and to hit back at the enormous success of the iPhone.

The service will allow users to store contacts from social networking sites and synchronise them with their home PC.

Naturally you’ll be able to insure your Vodafone 360 handset with Insurance2go.

BT have announced that they will be increasing the reach of its copper line based broadband network to cover 75% of the country. This will be welcome news to many users as it will result in faster speeds for the broadband users in these areas.

Currently 40% of their network runs on copper wires. With copper customers can experience Broadband speeds of upto 24 mb.

The CE of Orange, Tom Alexander, has brushed off reports that the merger between his company and T-Mobile would come under the scrutiny of the monopolies and mergers commission.

“This is a good deal for competition, I don’t envisage any significant issues” he said. “There’s been alot of rubbish talked about prices going up. Why on earth would they go up? It’s completely the wrong direction”.

Whether of not the deal is scrutinised and if and when it happens you can be sure to know that insurance2go will be happy to insure the handsets on all networks.

BT are now free to compete with rivals in any manner it chooses. The move by Ofocm ends 25 years of controls that has held BT back from being allowed to offer some services such as discounted bundles such as the triple product made up of fixed line phone services, broadband and digital television.

The move should benefit consumers as pressure is put on BTs rival such as Carphone Warehouse and Virgin Media to be as competitive as possible.

The French government has summond the CE of the telecoms giant to a meeting to discuss the levels of stress at France Telecom following the alarming news that 23 employees have committed suicide and another 13 have attempted suicide since February 2008.

It has been suggested that the suicides are due to restructuring of roles within the company.

T-Mobile and Orange are to merge to create the UK’s largest mobile phone company with about 37% market share. The announcement is contrary to what we reported yesterday when we said that Vodafone and O2 had both made offers for the German owned T-Mobile.

The move will result in a telecoms giant with 28 million customers. The two brands will run seperately for 18 months then branding will be reviewed.

Figures: Orange employs 12,500 people in the UK, T-Mobile 6,500.

It’s been a long road for T-Mobile that launched in 1993 called Mercury 1-2-1, then it became known as one-2-one and most recently T-Mobile when it was purchased by Deutsche Telecom.

The Sunday Times in the UK reported that both Vodafone and Telefonice (who owns o2 in the UK) have table bids of £3.5 billion to buy T-Mobile from Deutche Telecom. The offers are said to be lower than DT expected.

Either move would create the UK’s largest Mobile network and would no doubt cause there to be questions over at monopolies mergers.

Watch this space for further details!